Multiple card bingo game playing device

• US 4,651,995 A
• Filed: 04/15/1986
• Issued: 03/24/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1984
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bingold Ventures
• Original Assignee: Bingold Ventures
• Inventors: Henkel, William K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/853,364
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: 273/121 A, 273/138 A, 273/237, 273/238, 273/269, 364/410-412
• US Class Current: 273/237
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/0004 using BRAILLE
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/242 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 3/064 Electric devices for filling-in or checking

Abstract

A game device for simultaneously playing a plurality of bingo cards. The hittable numbers from a plurality of cards are input by keys for storage and displayed in the same spatial relationship in which they appear on the cards. The patterns of the game to be played are programmed by the player and displayed in their spatial relationship. Random numbers, called by the M.C., are entered and processed. When a bingo or alert is found, lamps indicative of the status are lit. When a card is 1 short of a bingo, each number needed for bingo is displayed. On achieving a bingo, each winning combination is displayed.

Claims

1. A game device for playing more than one bingo card at a time, comprising container means, computer means mounted in said container means, visual display means mounted on said container means and operably connected to said computer means, a plurality of manually actuated numerical input keys to input into the computer means representations of a plurality of numbers appearing on a 5×

5 matrix of each bingo card to be played, means in said computer means to assign each of said numbers its relative spatial location in its 5×

5 matrix based upon the relative time sequence of input of said numbers and to cause said display means to display said plurality of numbers in the same spatial orientation which they occupied on the card from which they were input, means to selectively input into said computer means a plurality of spatially oriented bingo patterns by pressing those portions of the display means which spatially define each pattern, means to select at least one of the input patterns for the game to be played, means in said computer means to determine which of said plurality of numbers for each card are within a selected pattern for the game to be played, means to input a series of random numbers, one at a time, and to compare for each card each random number with those of said plurality of numbers which are within a pattern of the game selected to be played to at least determine and identify on which cards a bingo exists for a pattern selected for the game to be played.

2. A device in accordance with claim 1 wherein, each of said random numbers are displayed in columns which correspond to the column to which the number is allocated by the rules of bingo.

3. A device in accordance with claim 1 including, means to display the numbers which constitute a winning bingo pattern for each card having a bingo pattern.

4. A device in accordance with claim 3 wherein, said plurality numbers which constitute said winning bingo pattern are displayed in the same location in which they appeared on the card from which said numbers were input.

5. A device in accordance with claim 1 including, means in said computer means to determine, as each random number is entered, whether the input of a random number causes any of said plurality of numbers on any card to constitute the remaining one of the plurality of numbers, within a pattern of the game selected to be played, which is necessary to constitute a bingo for the pattern, and means in said computer means to cause said display means to cumulatively display each of the remaining ones of the plurality of numbers, any one of which, if matched by a subsequently entered random number, would constitute a bingo for a pattern.

6. A device in accordance with claim 5 including, means in said computer means to cause said display means to display said remaining ones of the plurality of numbers in columns to which the numbers are assigned by the rules of bingo.